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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Pat and Meg talk briefly about when Monsewer leaves?
(a) One of the tenants Monsewer brought into the house.
(b) How well he runs the house.
(c) The prostitutes in the house.
(d) The boarding house's expenses.

2. Why does Meg feel betrayed?
(a) She has covered his rent before and does not want to do it again.
(b) She wanted to meet the prisoner first.
(c) After all she has done for him, he turns out to be a spy.
(d) After everything she said and did to defend Mulleady when he ran away with the church funds.

3. This raucous comedy-drama tells the parallel stories of what two people?
(a) Soldiers, one American and one German.
(b) Caretakers, one Irish and one British.
(c) Prostitutes, one Irish and one British.
(d) Soldiers, one Irish and one British.

4. How does Monsewer go out after hearing this news?
(a) Worried.
(b) Upset.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Angry.

5. What takes place suddenly in this story?
(a) Gun shots.
(b) Violence, music, and humor.
(c) Music.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the conversation, what does Pat comment about the fight of the IRA for independence?

2. When she is gone, what does Monsewer tell Pat?

3. When he is finished, he and Meg talk further about what?

4. Why can Mulleady not leave with Miss Gilchrist?

5. How does the officer quote a leader of the IRA?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does the Soldier ask? Does he get it? Why or why not?

2. How does Pat feel about the way that Meg talks to him?

3. What does the Soldier do as he enters the scene?

4. How does Meg respond to Pat's comment about the house being little more than a brothel? How does he reassure her?

5. What news does Monsewer have for Pat?

6. What do the characters say about the Bible and Miss Gilchrist's faith?

7. How does the play end?

8. How does Teresa act when she finds out the Officer did not give the Soldier the cigarettes? How does the Soldier respond?

9. For whom does the Soldier mistake Miss Gilchrist? Why?

10. About what does Pat sing?

(see the answer keys)

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